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Posts tagged with 'podcast' and 'BBC' at MetaFilter.Sat, 06 Jun 2015 11:42:18 -0800Sat, 06 Jun 2015 11:42:18 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss603Blue1Brown: Reminding the world that math makes sensehttp://www.metafilter.com/150242/3Blue1Brown%2DReminding%2Dthe%2Dworld%2Dthat%2Dmath%2Dmakes%2Dsense
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_0yfvm0UoU">Understanding e to the pi i</a> - "<a href="http://www.3blue1brown.com/s/HowToThinkAboutExponentials.pdf">An intuitive explanation</a> as to why <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04hz49f" title="Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Euler's number, also known as e. First discovered in the seventeenth century by the Swiss mathematician Jacob Bernoulli when he was studying compound interest, e is now recognised as one of the most important and interesting numbers in mathematics. Roughly equal to 2.718, e is useful in studying many everyday situations, from personal savings to epidemics. It also features in Euler's Identity, sometimes described as the most beautiful equation ever written. With: Colva Roney-Dougal, Reader in Pure Mathematics at the University of St Andrews; June Barrow-Green, Senior Lecturer in the History of Maths at the Open University; and Vicky Neale, Whitehead Lecturer at the Mathematical Institute and Balliol College at the University of Oxford.">e</a> to the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004y291" title="Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of the most detailed number in nature. In the Bible's description of Solomon's temple it comes out as three, Archimedes calculated it to the equivalent of 14 decimal places and today's super computers have defined it with an extraordinary degree of accuracy to its first 1.4 trillion digits. It is the longest number in nature and we only need its first 32 figures to calculate the size of the known universe within the accuracy of one proton. We are talking about Pi, 3.14159 etc, the number which describes the ratio of a circle's diameter to its circumference. How has something so commonplace in nature been such a challenge for maths? And what does the oddly ubiquitous nature of Pi tell us about the hidden complexities of our world? With: Robert Kaplan, co-founder of the Maths Circle at Harvard University; Eleanor Robson, Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University; and Ian Stewart, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick.">pi</a> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tt6b2" title="Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss imaginary numbers. In the sixteenth century, a group of mathematicians in Bologna found a solution to a problem that had puzzled generations before them: a completely new kind of number. For more than a century this discovery was greeted with such scepticism that the great French thinker Rene Descartes dismissed it as an 'imaginary' number. The name stuck - but so did the numbers. Long dismissed as useless or even fictitious, the imaginary number i and its properties were first explored seriously in the eighteenth century. Today the imaginary numbers are in daily use by engineers, and are vital to our understanding of phenomena including electricity and radio waves. With: Marcus du Sautoy, Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University; Ian Stewart, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick; and Caroline Series, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick.">i</a> equals -1 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rVHLZm5Aho">without a hint</a> of calculus. This is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLzLxVeqdQg">not your usual</a> Taylor series nonsense." (<a href="https://twitter.com/stevenstrogatz/status/604653212214292481" title="''A star is born.''">via</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/604679198259580928" title="''Best geek video I've seen all week.''">via</a>; <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/2xzzk0/nontaylorseries_explanation_for_eulers_formula/">reddit</a>; <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/89918/Math-is-beautiful">previously</a>) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw">More videos from 3Blue1Brown</a>: "<a href="http://www.3blue1brown.com/">3Blue1Brown</a> is some combination of math and entertainment, depending on your disposition. The goal is for explanations to be <a href="http://www.3blue1brown.com/about/" title="''When the tool I am building for animations becomes something besides a jumble of Python and Duct tape, I'll make it publicly available so that anyone can use it to easily illustrate their own explanations.''">driven by animations</a>, for difficult problems to be made simple with changes in perspective, and for philosophizing to be limited to the brevity and semantic constraints of silly poetry. Basically, math sits in <a href="https://plus.google.com/117663015413546257905/posts/QAhMH35LThk">an ivory tower it built itself out of</a> jargon and impossibly long sequences of (seemingly) logical steps, and I would like to take it out for a walk to <a href="http://wordplay.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/09/%CF%80/">meet everyone</a>." tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.150242Sat, 06 Jun 2015 11:42:18 -0800kliulessThere was no BBC in Shakespeare's time.http://www.metafilter.com/142039/There%2Dwas%2Dno%2DBBC%2Din%2DShakespeares%2Dtime
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017gm45">Shakespeare's Restless World</a> is a BBC radio series (<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/r4shakespeare">podcast link</a>) where the director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00q81nq">explores England during the lifetime of William Shakespeare</a> as represented by twenty objects, much in the way of his earlier <i>A History of the World in a 100 Objects</i> (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/87918/creative-dissatisfaction-that-elusive-fire-in-the-belly">previously</a>). The focus is on Shakespeare's plays and how they were understood by his contemporaries. The series was also <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/014312594X/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">published as a book</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.142039Tue, 19 Aug 2014 11:06:32 -0800KattullusA hundred years ago Europe was in the midst of the July Crisis.http://www.metafilter.com/141364/A%2Dhundred%2Dyears%2Dago%2DEurope%2Dwas%2Din%2Dthe%2Dmidst%2Dof%2Dthe%2DJuly%2DCrisis
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww1">The BBC will be covering World War One</a> in great detail over the next four years. They've already started, with <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/ww1">podcasts</a>, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/0/ww1/25768752">interactive guides</a>, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/0/28293511">online courses</a>, programs <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01nb93y">new</a> and <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01r56vl">old</a> plus much, much more. Perhaps it's best to start at the beginning, with Professor Margaret MacMillan's <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/timelines/zgy334j">Countdown to World War One</a> (<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/1914">podcast link</a>) or the account of her fellow historian Christopher Clark, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03t7p27">Month of Madness</a>. Of course, how the war started is still contested by historians, as recounted in <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03t88vz">The Great War of Words</a>. The latter two are also part of the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ww1">main WWI podcast</a>. Or you can dive into the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/mcww1/all">Music and Culture</a> section, go through an <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b040mx76/clips">A-Z guide</a> or <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5R553jlKr6yzwYsv9Fbc5sl/1914-day-by-day-cartoons">look at comics</a> drawn by modern cartoonists. tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.141364Sun, 27 Jul 2014 13:23:41 -0800KattullusOvaries! Time MAchines!http://www.metafilter.com/129785/Ovaries%2DTime%2DMAchines
British comedian <a href="http://www.josielong.com/">Josie Long</a> explores All the Planet's Wonders in a very short series on BBC radio: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a90Iy2ahVOc">Collecting</a>. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvX632RXZnk">Animals</a>. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV7jSH8cqKM">Astronomy</a>. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8Qr4BJPNZ0">Plants</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.129785Mon, 08 Jul 2013 09:31:10 -08001f2frfbf'Let my armies be the rocks and the trees and the birds in the sky'http://www.metafilter.com/127864/Let%2Dmy%2Darmies%2Dbe%2Dthe%2Drocks%2Dand%2Dthe%2Dtrees%2Dand%2Dthe%2Dbirds%2Din%2Dthe%2Dsky
BBC Radio 4 has begun to transmit <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s6xyk">Tweet of the Day</a>, a 90 second 5:58 A.M. weekday broadcast (<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/totd">also podcast</a>!), featuring the songs of UK birds. The program is set to last for 265 episodes, and will feature a revolving door of presenters, beginning with <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/apr/24/tweet-david-attenborough-bbc-radio-birdsong">Sir David Attenborough</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.127864Wed, 08 May 2013 16:34:01 -0800Omon RaThe Value of Culturehttp://www.metafilter.com/123549/The%2DValue%2Dof%2DCulture
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pmg02/episodes/guide">The Value of Culture</a> is a five part BBC radio series by Melvyn Bragg (which can be <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/tvoc">downloaded as a podcast</a>) which explores the modern concept of 'culture' from its roots in mid-19th Century Britain, specifically Matthew Arnold's <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/tvoc">Culture and Anarchy</a> and Edward Burnett Tylor's <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=AucLAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover">Primitive Culture</a> (<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=RUMBAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover">vol. 2</a>), and exploring the discourse and uses of the concept until the present day. There are five episodes, each a little over forty minutes long, focusing in turn on <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01phf4c">Arnold and the roots of the concept of culture</a>, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01phfsw">Tylor and the anthropological conception of culture</a>, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01phhy5">C. P. Snow and the 'Two Cultures' debate</a>, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01phkt6">mass culture and culture studies</a>, and then ending with a <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01phm1j">debate on the value of culture today</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.123549Sun, 06 Jan 2013 15:52:49 -0800Kattullus"The phrase 'intergalactically stupid' appeared... and he responded."http://www.metafilter.com/121714/The%2Dphrase%2Dintergalactically%2Dstupid%2Dappeared%2Dand%2Dhe%2Dresponded
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/kermodeandmayo/">The Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo's Film Review YouTube channel</a> has a lot of videos of film reviews from the livestream of their <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lvdrj">BBC radio show and podcast</a>, going back about five years. They are sorted by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/kermodeandmayo/videos?flow=grid&view=1">genre, film rating, geographic origin</a> and one special category, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwSLy9KPuWVWdBYf5x0JTFnqaecyIBYEZ">Classic Kermodean Rants</a>, which includes his reviews of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwkL53bH0PI">Transformers: Dark of the Moon</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHeQeHstrsc">Sex and the City 2</a>, in which he ends up sing-shouting The Internationale, and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdKWoi0PMWg">Angels and Demons</a>, which woke a <a href="http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/fivelive/kermode/kermode_20101126-1742a.mp3">man from a coma</a> (mp3, story starts at 5:10, and it is followed up <a href="http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/fivelive/kermode/kermode_20101224-1400a.mp3">here</a>, beginning at 5:30). tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.121714Sat, 10 Nov 2012 07:46:08 -0800KattullusAuthor interviewshttp://www.metafilter.com/117207/Author%2Dinterviews
"Book TV's<a href="http://booktv.org/Series/AW/After-Words.aspx"> After Words</a> features the author of a recently published hardback non-fiction book interviewed by a guest host with some knowledge, background, or connection to the subject matter of the book." There's also a <a href="http://www.c-span.org/content/xml/podcast/aw_feed.xml">podcast version</a> <small>(link goes to XML feed)</small>, for those who'd rather listen. Many more non-fiction author interviews can be found at <a href="http://booknotes.org/">Booknotes</a> <small>(transcripts and streaming video)</small>. If your tastes run to interviews with authors of fiction, check out the BBC's <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/writers/">Modern Writers archive</a>. <small>(BookTV (but not specifically After Words) <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/62769/BookTV">previously</a>, Booknotes (but before the series ended) <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/22758/Why-We-Watch-TV-Revisited">previously</a>.)</small> tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.117207Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:05:26 -0800cog_nateThe Written World - A History of Writinghttp://www.metafilter.com/111357/The%2DWritten%2DWorld%2DA%2DHistory%2Dof%2DWriting
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0192yhn">The Written World</a> is a five part radio series put together by Melyvn Bragg as part of the <i>In Our Time</i> BBC radio project. The programmes look at the history of written word, and how it has shaped our intellectual history. Each episode is available as a <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/writtenworld">podcast</a> and has an accompanying page (<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018wfsc">1</a> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018wy46">2</a> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018xsmd">3</a> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018xw60">4</a> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018xy22">5</a>) with images and links for further exploration. Also: <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16399544">The books that shaped history</a> (narrated slideshow); the <a href="http://www.bl.uk/whatson/permgall/treasures/writtenworld.html">British Library</a> page. &nbsp; tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.111357Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:42:28 -0800carterMore Mayo, Hold the Kermodehttp://www.metafilter.com/108906/More%2DMayo%2DHold%2Dthe%2DKermode
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/mayo">More Mayo</a> is the podcast version of BBC's <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/simon-mayo/">Simon Mayo Drivetime</a>. Mayo is best known outside of the UK as one half of the Mayo and Kermode's Film Reviews. The centerpiece of the More Mayo podcast is the confessions, where listeners write in asking forgiveness for past transgressions. They are often funny and sometimes jaw-dropping (such as the first one in the latest episode). The podcasts are generally around a half an hour long and contain three or four confessions and a short interview with anyone from huge celebrities to debut novelists to children. The podcasts are available to download for 30 days. tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.108906Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:20:01 -0800KattullusFrom Our Own Correspondenthttp://www.metafilter.com/107111/From%2DOur%2DOwn%2DCorrespondent
For over 50 years, the BBC's <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Our_Own_Correspondent">From Our Own Correspondent</a></em> has been an opportunity for reporters to share <em>a bit of context, some relevant history, one or two of the characters encountered en route, some description of a foreign country or capital</em>, in 5 or 10 minute segments. <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/default.stm">The program</a> is available online in various formats: <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/default.stm">the weekly 30 minute version</a> can be heard (in its entirety or individual segments) via the BBC website, or there are <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/fooc">a wide variety of podcasting options available</a> for those who prefer to download. Alternately, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p002vsng">the BBC World Service daily 10 minute version</a> can be heard online. For a different approach, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/archive/default.stm">the FOOC Archives</a> have the past few years' worth of segments, sorted by geographical region. One recent highlight was <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00jq0d2">Rana Jawad's revelation (in her own voice)</a> that <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14686402">she went underground during the uprising in Libya and that she is, in fact, Tripoli Witness</a>, one of the main sources of information from the capital for the past few months. <a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/08/31/140079512/bbcs-tripoli-witness-comes-out-of-hiding">This story was later covered by NPR.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.107111Sat, 03 Sep 2011 06:40:28 -0800hippybearMonday, 9:00 AM. Briefing meeting with Deparment Research Team Thirty-Two.http://www.metafilter.com/102176/Monday%2D900%2DAM%2DBriefing%2Dmeeting%2Dwith%2DDeparment%2DResearch%2DTeam%2DThirtyTwo
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/the_department.shtml">The Department.</a> Regular listeners to The Bugle (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/66901/The-Bugle-Audio-Newspaper-for-a-Visual-World">previously</a>) will have been missing their usual weekly dose of historico-politico-silliness. But there is a fallback. While Bugle co-host Andy Zaltzman has been <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/101043/The-Sachin-Tendulkar-of-Cricketblogging">travelling about Asia</a>, the <a href="http://podcast.timesonline.co.uk/rss/thebuglemp3.rss">regular Bugle feed</a> is vamping <a href="http://twitter.com/hellobuglers/status/51361051660386304">with</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/hellobuglers/status/53892589493043200">filler</a>. If you're missing The Bugle, read on.
For three seasons prior to their launching The Bugle in 2007, John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman wrote and acted in the BBC Radio 4 comedy <em>The Department</em>. The Department, a bureaucratic organization hidden from both the public and the government, has secretly been running the country (Great Britain) for ages. Working for The Department Oliver and Zaltzman form two-thirds of Research Team 32. Each week the team addresses one of the Big Problems facing the country, such as Trade, Immigration, Terrorism, or The British Transport System. The show starts with the statement of the problem and then lays out several silly solutions.
In one episode, proposed solutions to the problems of Transport include lowering expectations, being brutally honesty with travellers, an award show for the worst rail disasters, installing football managers to manage transit employees, etc..
(The third member of Team 32 is played by Chris Addison, better known for playing the cherub-faced bastard Ollie in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YOaLjYa-tw#t=4m45s">The Thick of It</a>.)
So if lines like "Blaming hip-hop for gun crime is like blaming J. M. W. Turner for stormy seas." is your type of observational comedy, give <em>The Department</em> a try. But where to listen? Sadly, the BBC isn't currently re-running it or making it available for purchase, so I'll quote <a href="http://twitter.com/hellobuglers/status/52037020758970368">The Bugle's own tweet</a> "Google and the word 'torrent' can help out. tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.102176Sun, 03 Apr 2011 16:53:00 -0800benito.straussA Brief History of Mathematicshttp://www.metafilter.com/98090/A%2DBrief%2DHistory%2Dof%2DMathematics
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/maths">A Brief History of Mathematics</a> is a BBC series of ten fifteen-minute podcasts by Professor Marcus du Sautoy about the history of mathematics from Newton and Leibniz to Nicolas Bourbaki, the pseudonym of a group of French 20th Century mathematicians. Among those covered by Professor du Sautoy are Euler, Fourier and Poincaré. The podcasts also include short interviews with people such as Brian Eno and Roger Penrose. tag:metafilter.com,2010:site.98090Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:17:18 -0800KattullusA Widow's Journey.http://www.metafilter.com/95344/A%2DWidows%2DJourney
<a href="http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20100901-1005a.mp3">A Widow's Journey [MP3].</a> "In 1989, Appapillai Amirthalingam - the most prominent political figure of the Tamil community - was assassinated at his home in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo. Twenty years on, the Tamil Tigers have been defeated by the military. Appapillai's wife and son travel back to their homeland in search of his legacy in an attempt to understand what the future holds for Sri Lanka's Tamil people." tag:metafilter.com,2010:site.95344Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:06:41 -0800chunking expressBBC World Service Documentarieshttp://www.metafilter.com/91775/BBC%2DWorld%2DService%2DDocumentaries
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/">BBC World Service has over 500 audio documentaries</a> you can download. The subject matter is incredibly wide ranging, for example, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2009/12/091215_internet_cafe_hobo_doc1.shtml">internet cafés</a>, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2009/08/090807_wiilam_and_the_muslims.shtml">the influence of Islamic art on William Morris</a>, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2009/07/090702_thembi_doc.shtml">South African female AIDS activist Thembi Ngubane</a>, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2009/03/090312_yiddish_part1.shtml">Yiddish</a>, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2008/11/081105_world_without_cows.shtml">the importance of cows</a>, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2009/03/090325_aheroreturns.shtml">novelist Chinua Achebe</a>, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2008/12/081229_rules_of_risk.shtml">financial risk management</a>, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2009/01/090113_obama_prof_prez.shtml">Obama as an intellectual</a>, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2009/06/090529_anatomy_car_crash.shtml">the physical and emotional effects of a car crash</a> and many, many more. If the quantity and variety are overwhelming, you can subscribe to a <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/docarchive/">podcast</a>, which delivers a new documentary to you every single day. tag:metafilter.com,2010:site.91775Sat, 08 May 2010 17:33:10 -0800KattullusBBC Podcasts to learn about bakery fresh British popular musichttp://www.metafilter.com/66240/BBC%2DPodcasts%2Dto%2Dlearn%2Dabout%2Dbakery%2Dfresh%2DBritish%2Dpopular%2Dmusic
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/introducing/">BBC Introducing</a> is an excellent way to keep tabs on what's fresh in the British popular music scene without having to live in a rainsoaked armpit. There are four podcasts for you to download, the flagship <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/huwstephens/unsigned.shtml">Best of Unsigned Podcast</a>, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/homegrown/">Homegrown Mix with Ras Kwame</a>, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/scotintro/">Scotland Introducing</a> and BBC Radio Northampton's <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/weekender/">Weekender</a>. All feature bands that are either unsigned or just recently signed and the music ranges from hip hop to punk rock to what sounds awfully like the soundtrack for a NES game with half-hearted chanting over it. This is an excellent resource whether you're casual searcher for new songs or the kind of anorak who knows which British indie band was first to use an 808. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.66240Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:47:16 -0800Kattullus2007 Reith Lectureshttp://www.metafilter.com/60275/2007%2DReith%2DLectures
Over the next <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2007/schedule.shtml">four weeks</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Sachs">Jeffrey Sachs</a> will be giving the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2007/">2007</a> BBC <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith/index.shtml">Reith Lectures</a>. <a href="http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/downloadtrial/radio4/radio4choice/radio4choice_20070411-0900_40_st.mp3">Download </a><small>[MP3]</small> the first week's lecture ("<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2007/lecture1.shtml">Bursting at the Seams</a>"), or <a href="http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/downloadtrial/radio4/radio4choice/rss.xml">subscribe</a> <small>[XML]</small> to the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/radio4choice.shtml">podcast</a>. Listen to the 1999-2006 lectures <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith/index.shtml">in full</a>, or <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith/historic_audio/reith_historic.shtml">hear </a> historic <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith/reith_history.shtml">lecturers </a>such as Bertrand Russell and J.K. Galbraith. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.60275Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:51:16 -0800Aloysius BearTake One Museumhttp://www.metafilter.com/49323/Take%2DOne%2DMuseum
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/take_one/">Take One Museum</a> on BBC Four is the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/cinema/features/russian-ark.shtml">Russian Ark</a></span> of documentaries as expert <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/take_one/presenter.shtml">Paul Rose</a> looks around a museum, with the help of some tour guides in one take over a thirty minute period. I caught the tail end of <a href="http://www.rnsubmus.co.uk/">the Royal Navy Submarine Museum episode</a> and he seemed like a man of great enthusiasm. Much like New York's <a href="http://www.moma.org/">Museum of Modern Art</a>'s podcast <a href="http://www.moma.org/visit_moma/audio.html">official</a> and <a href="http://mod.blogs.com/art_mobs/">unofficial</a>, an audio podcast version of the show is available so that a visitor to the actual museum can cover the same ground with the aid of their mp3 player. Excellently, it's the <a href="http://www.msim.org.uk/">Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester</a> next week so I'll definitely be going there again soon to see what this is like. tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.49323Sun, 19 Feb 2006 08:53:44 -0800feelinglistless